Archives for June 2015

Ezra, (Spokane), Bob, (Seattle), Jim, (Chicago via Abu Dhabi), and Brent, (Seattle), ran the Ruby Crest Trail in the Rubies IN ONE DAY! I picked them up that morning, June 25, 2:30 am at their hotel in Elko for the shuttle to the trailhead at Harrison Pass where they shouldered what looked to me to be [read more…]

Cowboy John Tours operates a shuttle service for the Ruby Crest Trail, in the northeastern Nevada’s Ruby Mountains. June 11 I drove a gentleman from Indiana, and his two sons, to Harrison for the hike. That was a Thursday, and Saturday Blake called (some how got cell service on top!) asking me to pick them up back at Harrison Pass, the [read more…]

At the request of the Elko Convention Center and Nevada’s Commission on Tourism I toured French journalist Aliette de Crozet, through “Cowboy Country” June 9 and 10. The tour began at the Western Folklife Center’s Black Box theater with the beautiful short, “Why the Cowboy Sings,” and the Baja Cowboy exhibit in the gallery. The California Trail Center, Thomas Canyon and Lamoille were next [read more…]